Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surely, one will get a few laughs out of The Dinner Game, particularly at the fast-paced onset of the film, but all too soon the true tragedy of the movie sets in. Pignon is a nice person, it feels bad to laugh at him, and in the end he doesn't disprove the fact that he's an idiot at all, but rather has perhaps pointed out the audience's idiocy: laughing during a movie that is more tragic than it is comic...
...boring that he almost loses his audience before the real plot kicks in. The scene that actually rekindles the audience's attention is the one we've been watching for months: the couple stroke each other in front of a mirror while Chris Isaak's perfect "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" messes with the tone of the moment. Though Kidman and Cruise don't have sex on-screen (what a tease!), the short scene is wonderful because it is so loaded. Combine Kidman's glances into the mirror, her height advantage over Cruise, Isaak's strange lyrics (the verse...
...ghost stories of a small town. The first screen tells us that we are about to see their footage, recovered a year after their disappearance. The rest of the movie shows the filmmakers at work. The movie is entirely shot in grainy video and 16mm film, often in bad light or with bad sound, through jerky, rushed shots. There's no score and no opening credits. On the one hand, this makes it plausible that the movie is no illusion. It seems to be a student documentary made on the cheap that fully demonstrates the power of the storied Blair...
...thought the Pudding had bad chairs, wait until you see the Loeb Ex! Falsettos, "a musical focusing on the value of family rather than family value" opened last night! If the above clever turn of phrase is not enough to attract you the the second performance, consider: How often does Harvard perform a Tony-Award winning musical? And how often does such a musical include a character named "Whizzer," whom "Marvin" is in love with...
...When I Reach For My Revolver," or the insistent dance of his "James Bond" theme, Play is subtler in sound. Moby intricately combines gospel and blues samples with modern instrumentation to form a hybrid of old and new. Songs like the haunting "Why does my heart feel so bad?" and the jaunty "Run On" are distinctly modern yet also contain profound echoes of the past...